all things family: me, the hubster, and the kiddos.
For Thanksgiving this year we did something a little different. Brian’s parents (Paula and Jimmy) and his brother (Michael) flew out west from Boston to visit for a week. We spent the whole week with them plus we visited with Noni and Papa both in the desert and had them all over for a Thanksgiving Continue reading
As usual, the LA County Fair always comes around at the hottest time of the year in southern California – the end of summer. This year, it was one of the coolest we’ve had in awhile – it was in the low 90s. This year we came prepared with hats, glasses and a buttload of Continue reading
Brian managed to score some circus tickets from work. While part of me knew the kids would love to go the other part of me really didn’t want to support an organization that cages animals, trains them, and then drags them around the world for people’s “entertainment”. I mean, I don’t support Sea World so Continue reading
How is it that my kid graduated from kindergarten already? Six years have come and gone so fast! I really believe that I had no concept of time whatsoever until I had kids. Kids really put things (and life) into perspective. So, here he is – my little peanut with his kindergarten teacher, Ms. Amanda: Continue reading
On Sunday, August 26th Miss Violet started getting a little cranky in the afternoon, had a little bit of a runny nose and seemed a little warm to the touch. As, what I considered fairly experienced parents, we thought she was coming down with a cold. Boy, were we wrong – WAY wrong. Brian ended Continue reading
I am ready! This year will be a year of first baseball games for my son and daughter. I am going to share my love of Dodgers baseball with them.
Today Brian and I open yet another chapter in our lives. Today we lay our previous website, brianandmaureenmclaughlin.com, to rest. I mean let’s face it that domain name is just too long! Besides, it wasn’t a true representation of our family since the addition of our two kids, Ethan and Violet. We struggled and struggled Continue reading
We went to the LA Zoo twice in May, mostly because we thought our membership was due to expire at the end of the month. We had great fun – once with the kids’ paternal grandparents and once just the four of us. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures below. The first trip Continue reading
We are so blessed and happy that Violet decided to make her appearance in time to spend Easter with us. At a week only, she is the most precious bundle of joy and nothing could make me feel any happier. Before Violet was born, about a mid-March, we decided to take Easter portraits to memorialize Continue reading
Brian and I have been so excited about having baby number two (lovingly nicknamed B2) but we cannot believe how fast this pregnancy has flown by. We decided early on that we wanted to move Ethan to, what was, the spare room and put B2 in the existing nursery. I’m not sure what we were Continue reading